Hi again Terri,
I understand where you are coming from but I think this is as good as it
gets for a while. I think I could do that sort of thing with the older
Blazie products but their system wasn't reliable. I have been happier with
the Braillenote Family of Products till we had to get the adapter and I
haven't tried it yet. I'll probably have time to do so tonight.
I should clarify one point. When I used a single sided embosser, my
embossing started right away. When I used the Juliet with interpoint
embossing, I had to start the process twice. This was especially true with
a long document.
Jim
At 12:06 PM 01/14/2006 , you wrote:
Dear Jim,
I understand what you are saying about embossing specific pages and blocks,
but I want to be able to do all of my embossing with the document open.
It's so nice to be able to see the document so you don't have to keep
opening and closing the document. Besides, you wouldn't have to remember
what page number you want to emboss if there was an "emboss current page"
feature in the menu. You could use the go to command to find the page and
emboss it.
I always emboss documents while they're open using my PC and DBT Win and I
would like to be able to do the same thing with the MP.
Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] infrared to parallel converter arrived!
: Hi Terri and list,
:
: I got mine yesterday as well. I'm still trying to figure out how to hook
: it up and will work on it when time permits. It is a nice looking ruggid
: device. Paying $72 or so is much better than $160 or $250.
:
: Start the embossing process in the usual way. The BN will prompt you for
: the file you wish to emboss. Once that is selected and you press enter,
: the BN will say embosser ready? Type N for No instead of Y for yes. You
: will be presented with some new prompts. First page to emboss, last page
: to emboss to end of document? You can enter which specific page or pages
: you wish to have embossed. Once entered, you will get the Embosser Ready
: prompt? Type Y for Yes and you will get your specified pages embossed.
If
: you have individual pages to be embossed, as pages 7 and 8, pages 15 and
: 16, you will need to emboss these two at a time when using an interpoint
: embosser or one at a time for a single page embosser. You could paste a
: paragraph in the clipboard and save that to a file and have your embosser
: emboss that new file. It would not be a perfect answer but it could be
: done. Usually if the embossing stops early, or paper jams, I simply
emboss
: the pages which didn't emboss at the first.
:
: My embosser never started right away even when I was using a parallel
: cable. I'd always need to clear the buffer of the embosser again and
start
: the process once again. I'd usually emboss the second time around so the
: problem may be how the M-power communicates with many embossers, I really
: don't know for certain. I'll have more to say once I get my infrared
: adapter going.
:
: Glad to hear it is working!
:
: Jim Aldrich
:
: At 08:16 PM 01/13/2006 , you wrote:
: >Dear List,
: >
: >I'm happy to report the infrared to parallel converter I bought from
: >Enabling technologies arrived yesterday. I have spent most of the
afternoon
: >trying it out. I'm not the brightest person when it comes to using
things
: >like this, so it took me a while to get it connected.
: >
: >It works very well with my Index Everest-D and my Mpower. I would like
to
: >say "beautifully", but the MP is having a hard time recognizing it. I
have
: >to put the infrared pointer snugly against the port. The infrared port
on
: >the MP is much smaller than the one on the classic.
: >
: >I have also received some error messages. The full contents of the error
: >message doesn't appear on the braille display. It only appears in
speech.
: >The braille will show that the MP sees the infrared device. I wonder if
: >there's a bug somewhere. The work-around I have been using is to press
the
: >escape key, press e for emboss and e to emboss a document and even go
: >through one or two more steps until the MP kicks in, says embossing is
: >complete and my document is finally embossed. Once you know the document
is
: >embossing, you don't need to go through any more steps.
: >
: >There are some suggestions I have for HumanWare to do which would improve
: >embossing documents:
: >
: >1. I would like to be able to emboss a document while it is still open.
I
: >would like to be able to emboss a paragraph or a block of text. This
: >feature could be added to the block menu.
: >
: >2. I would like to be able to emboss the current page of a document.
: >
: >3. I would like to be able to emboss specific pages of a document, such
as
: >page 1, 4, 10, 20, 50, etc while the document is open. Sometimes only a
few
: >pages in a document need to be embossed over again and these pages may
not
: >be in sequence.
: >
: >All in all, I like the infrared to parallel converter and it's worth
every
: >penny I spent on it.
: >
: >Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
: >California
: >
: >
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